The Polanders; The lying family; and The life of my uncle, with his portfolio

Pigault-Lebrun [Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l’Espinoy]

In two volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and on title pages. Retains original publishers’ bindings.

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The nuns of the desert, or, The woodland witches

By Eugenia De Acton. Author of Essays on the art of being happy; A tale without a title, &c.

[Althea Lewis] 

In two volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, on front pastedowns and on title pages. In original publishers’ bindings.

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“There is a secret, find it out!”: a novel in four volumes

Mary Meeke

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1808

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and “Eliza Giffard (Nerquis)” on title pages. Retains original paper publisher’s bindings.

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Lionel, or, The impenetrable command: an historical romance

Caroline Maxwell

In two volumes.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1809.

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and on title pages. Retains original publishers’ bindings.

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The wonder of the village: a novel

[Elizabeth Meeke?]

In three volumes

London: Printed at Minerva Press for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-street, 1804.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Binding: Bound in bookseller’s boards covered in grey paper; title and volume number inscribed on spine in ink in a contemporary hand; volume number embossed in black on spine; printed binding waste. Publisher’s advertisements in volume 1, pae [264] and in volume 2, pages [223]-[224]. 

Note in previous bibliographic record: acquired from Pickering, 17 August 1954. 

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